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Iron Man

This week's big action release is yet another of Marvel's comic book heroes making a cinema debut. A wealthy industrialist and inventor is kidnapped by the baddies and ordered to build some missiles. Instead, he builds a suit of iron, and escapes. Some time later, the baddies are back with more evil plans to take over the world, so our superhero decides to use his new suit to teach them a lesson.

122 minutes, No persons under 13 (Violence)
Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller.

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Credits
Cast	Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb, Shaun Toub, Faran Tahir
Director	Jon Favreau
Screenplay	Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum, Matt Holloway, using characters by Stan Lee, Don Heck, Larry Lieber, Jack Kirby
Music	Ramin Djawadi
Cinematography	Matthew Libatique
Editing	Dan Lebental
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2008
Produced by	Dark Blades Films, Marvel Enterprises, Road Rebel
SA Distributor	UIP

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Action
Language	Mild, infrequent
Nudity	None
Sex	Mildly implied, infrequent, brief
Violence	Frequent action violence, not graphic or bloody
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy
Drug abuse
Comments	None
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
South African Media
Die BurgerJeanne Calitz	15
Cape TimesKirk Honeycutt	15
iAfrica.comNils van der Linden	18
International Media
Metacritic.com7 critics	16
RottenTomatoes.com19 critics	14
RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer	18
Internet (IMDB)740 Netizens	17

Average .. 81%	16

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